Not a new low, it’s an old low applied in new ways.

Also the free cupholder era.

Mimics are real!

Simple. They get a president to fund and expand their operations.

Whatever negativity you’re getting from my comment, my tone is in response to your post. If it feels aggressive, it’s because you’re in charge of another life that you borderline see as a burden. Emotions leak out even through text, let alone direct contact. So this “I’m doing this because I have to” attitude I’m getting will affect him as well even if you try not to.

I apologize if this stresses you out further. However, I think you should consider adding some therapy sessions for yourself in order to reconcile with the trajectory of life you were thrust upon that doesn’t match your expectations or desires.

I think you’re taking too much of a burden on your shoulders and it will affect your interactions with all of your family members regardless of your intentions.

Again, good luck and try to find a healthy way to vent in advance in case of any unexpected situations.

First rule of parenthood: You have to want it.

You broke that rule. And yes, it sucks. But it’s self inflicted.

The magic of holding your kid and feeling that connection either happens or it doesn’t. Don’t stress about it. It’s normal regardless. It may be triggered by parenthood, but it’s a personality trait.

You and your kid are practically strangers stuck with each other. You don’t have to like each other, but you have to work together for the years to come. Over time, you’ll grow comfortable with the other’s presence and quirks. As the parent, you have the leading role, however over time that dynamic will slowly shift.

The point of this challenge you have so carelessly self-inflicted is to grow as a person through it. You don’t have to know if you can complete the journey on your own, but whether you can accept your kid as a constant companion and strive to do so together.

You’re the dad now. What did your dad do and what can you do better? Can you reach where he climbed or can you surpass him? And in doing so, will you understand him better as the person he was? Finally, what kind of person will you want your son to see in his heart should he ever attempt to make the same journey?

You’ve started to climb a mountain. It will be tough, there will be mistakes and nobody knows what you’ll find along the way if anything, but as you’ve already noticed, all that waits behind you now is an unpleasant fall into an abyss you’ll have to crawl out of eventually. And that will suck a lot more.

Good luck, pops! You’re a role model now!

Why not?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality

Here you go. Or if you prefer more specific:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_morality

Have a pleasant read.

With a hose.

I agree that even if the continent turns into a nuclear wasteland, there will still be people shouting this kind of thing pointlessly into the void.

There’s a thing that was happening in the past. Not sure it’s still happening, due to lack of news about it. It was something called “glamour modeling” I think or an extension of it.

Basically, official/legal photography studios took pictures of child models in swimsuits and revealing clothing, at times in suggestive positions and sold them to interested parties.

Nothing untoward directly happened to the children. They weren’t physically abused. They were treated as regular fashion models. And yet, it’s still csam. Why? Because of the intention behind making those pictures.

The intention to exploit.

I don’t know personally. The admins of the fediverse likely do, considering it’s something they’ve had to deal with from the start. So, they can likely answer much better than I might be able to.

Schools generally means it involves underage individuals, which makes any content using them csam. So in effect, the “AI” companies are generating a ton of csam and nobody is doing anything about it.

China still has the “lots of restless young men” problem, so they may be trying to placate the issue by way of diversionary tactics.

Still it’s something they created on their own, at the expense of women and now shockingly (not) blame women as well.

Truly idiotic leadership everywhere.

You’re right. It’s an opinion and only as important as the one having the opinion decides it to be.

That’s kinda the problem. We’re already careless with the things we do ourselves. It can’t be helped, nobody’s perfect. But once we start delegating tasks, we lose the direct experience. Priorities shift, attention moves to something else and the chance of carelessness rises because it’s no longer a problem we have to concern ourselves with.

Meanwhile, the LLM “learns”. What it “learns”, nobody knows because it does so mechanically. There’s zero understanding.
It keeps “learning” every time it’s fed something, so you don’t have a static program that does what it’s told. Instead it’s a “living” program that applies what it “learns”. And that makes it unpredictable in the long run.

This turns the user into a glorified middle manager who has to hover over their employee and make sure they did their job as they should have. And how many middle managers do you know with that kind of dedication, that isn’t spiteful at its core?

The push against this is that the people depending on it to do the work become less dependable themselves. And unless you’re an independent developer without a profit driven publisher breathing down your neck, this will be used in all the wrong ways as a standard instead of it being the exception.

Oh, so that’s why Epic’s Easy anticheat keeps having trouble. Microsoft might be using it as a trial run.

Love and hate are subjective opinions, so of course they’re unfair.

And so are upvotes/downvotes.

You’re expecting it to be used responsibly when we ourselves in general are very lacking in that department.

This here is a very good example of the actual use that will happen. A rush job to meet unrealistic deadlines. And that’s what will happen as is the norm.

“like it or not, gen AI is becoming an invaluable tool for developers”…

…who wish to take a dump on their work.